Category Archives: Birding
Tawny Frogmouth
I can’t resist posting this image, although Frogmouths are native to Australia. Inge took this picture of a captive bird exhibited at a Williamsburg Bird Club meeting. If you think birds are universally beautiful, consider this face. I’d say it’s … Continue reading
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Black-and-White Warbler
A perky little warbler of mixed woodlands that migrates through Tidewater Virginia. A few remain here to breed. It creeps along branches and up and down tree trunks looking for insects in the same manner as nuthatches and creepers. A … Continue reading
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Ferruginous Pygmy Owl
You may have to travel a long way to see this species. Inge saw it in south Texas, at the northern limit of its range. A tiny owl with a longish tail, it is no bigger than an Eastern Bluebird. … Continue reading
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Peregrine Falcon
These iconic falcons have slowly re-established in Virginia after their decimation decades ago from pesticides. This pair of young adults considered nesting under the Chickahominy river bridge, close to the James River. Inge suspects that too much human attention frightened … Continue reading
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Wood Stork
Compared to the handsome storks of Europe in Hans Christian Andersen’s story and those that carried us in a natal cradle, American Wood Storks look like old countrymen with bald, wrinkly heads exposed to too much sun. A featherless head … Continue reading
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Roger musing about Peace with Nature 